I am also an long term investor on maidsafe and I feel that 2018 going to make it really valuable crypto currency....it seems big players having some insider information like new exchange or anything else....something major is going to come in next few days....all of a sudden maidsafe have changed the gears...volume increased by 4 times in last 24 hours.....it seems some people knows something good about future of maidsafe that we common investors don't know...

Here are some of the main things to highlight this week:We originally planned to make all our core libraries (such as Routing, Self Encryption, etc.) GPLv3 only. However, we have now decided to make some exceptions: for instance, our connections networking library Crust 1 will be available under MIT and BSD licences. Many other utility libraries are also now going to be made available under this dual license.Ravinder (@ravinderjangra) has joined us at the Chennai Office. He has good experience with C# and he is an active contributor to Xamarin.Forms 5. We are looking forward to working with him.The bindgen branch has been merged upstream 4. This hits a big milestone in regard to the language bindings support.

See the road map of the project, the project has done a long period of preparation work, it can be seen that the project should be well prepared before the introduction of the project, should give the project a little praise, your serious work for the future development of the project laid a solid foundation.

I am also an long term investor on maidsafe and I feel that 2018 going to make it really valuable crypto currency....it seems big players having some insider information like new exchange or anything else....something major is going to come in next few days....all of a sudden maidsafe have changed the gears...volume increased by 4 times in last 24 hours.....it seems some people knows something good about future of maidsafe that we common investors don't know...

Do you have any links supporting your claim about big players? If the volume stays high for a prolonged time you may have a point.

MAID lel...such good tech...oh wait, at one time...it was supposed to be!? when i forget, long ago. and since? zero. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz nada.so yeah glad i sold way back during last hype phase, cos i see more zzzzzzzzz ahead. lol.

All decentralised networks must overcome a fundamental problem: without centralised control how do you collectively agree on what's happening? To do this you must have a consensus mechanism #SAFENetwork

They worked for months with a team designing and testing this stuff. You can not have secure data-storage in a P2P-network if the nodes can not agree on who stores what chunk of data. Especially if you want to provide 100% data integrity (like your chunks, coins and data still being there even if you didn't touch them for several years).

So no matter if the network gets 200.000 new nodes in a certain month, or if it looses a bunch of them...... Your data should be secured no matter what (even after an internet blackout).

It seems they have the consensus and Routing part in place (IP-connection layer was already done). This means they can finally move towards beta. First we'll see Alpha 3 and Alpha 4 I guess.

All decentralised networks must overcome a fundamental problem: without centralised control how do you collectively agree on what's happening? To do this you must have a consensus mechanism #SAFENetwork

They worked for months with a team designing and testing this stuff. You can not have secure data-storage in a P2P-network if the nodes can not agree on who stores what chunk of data. Especially if you want to provide 100% data integrity (like your chunks, coins and data still being there even if you didn't touch them for several years).

So no matter if the network gets 200.000 new nodes in a certain month, or if it looses a bunch of them...... Your data should be secured no matter what (even after an internet blackout).

It seems they have the consensus and Routing part in place (IP-connection layer was already done). This means they can finally move towards beta. First we'll see Alpha 3 and Alpha 4 I guess.

This could explain the increase in volume that someone has noticed lately. Let's really hope that beta is not too far, but on the other side, the real important aspect is the quality of the solution delivered, not the quantity of time that it is necessary to achieve it.

Hello dears! You can't predict the future of MaidSafeCoin! but I think the team is going in the right direction.MaidSafeCoin napolnen innovation! very interesting cryptocurrency! I will delve into the essence of the project!!

Alpha 3 would mean the routing layer would be in place... they said its bigger. This would mean that maybe (just maybe) the breakthrough in routing was Transaction speed nirvana.. that would shake the foundation of crypto.

I'll just leave this here. Something the CEO David Irvine posted in the forum today.

"Hey everyone, the update will be Thursday as normal, the marketing team is putting out snippets and teasers before then. Hope you are not disappointed. The wait will be worth it as this result will speed up the development significantly and also answer questions others are desperately trying to find. I will say more on Thursday, but its time we as a community start to say it like it is and stop the nonsense. This is a huge proposition, disbelieved by many but now will be proven by all of us. Our time is now folks, you will see. Home straight here we come"

I really love this project. Even despite the recent drawdowns and falls of the market, MAID was able to grow a little. If you look globally, the coin is now at the bottom. And in the relatively future we are waiting for good news. So MAID takes in my portfolio a significant part of the investment. Just lets wait a little.

I'll just leave this here. Something the CEO David Irvine posted in the forum today.

"Hey everyone, the update will be Thursday as normal, the marketing team is putting out snippets and teasers before then. Hope you are not disappointed. The wait will be worth it as this result will speed up the development significantly and also answer questions others are desperately trying to find. I will say more on Thursday, but its time we as a community start to say it like it is and stop the nonsense. This is a huge proposition, disbelieved by many but now will be proven by all of us. Our time is now folks, you will see. Home straight here we come"

HOME STRAIGHT HERE WE COME!

That is truly good news. Looking at the price graph is seems some serious accumulation has been going on in the past weeks. While most of the alts are suffering Maidsafe is slowly surging. I wish I had bought a few more at the bottom, but it's for sure not too late

PARSECIt’s called PARSEC (Protocol for Asynchronous, Reliable, Secure and Efficient Consensus) and the details of the RFC are available here 1 and today we are also releasing a corresponding Whitepaper. In addition, those looking for a higher level introduction should also check out our Medium article. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed working on them.

As you will find, PARSEC is an effective solution to the difficult challenge of achieving vote ordering in a decentralised network, even if ⅓ of nodes minus one are malicious. This is very interesting in itself, but when we incorporate some of the other deliverables of the Routing library, such as: Add, Remove, Split, Merge and Secure message transfer the functionality this provides is quite revolutionary.

code already up and running:

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The exciting part about these papers is that the code is already written, and some of it is running in Alpha 2!

Lot of speedup on releasing Alpha 3 and up to BETA:

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As many have speculated, this algorithm will reduce significantly the number of testnets and code we write. Instead of huge conditional sets in our codebase, it will be reduced to this algorithm. Then adding features: add, remove, split, merge and secure message relay, Routing will be complete for Alpha 3. This marks the end of the unknowns we have to face before launch. From this point on we will be finalising Vault rules, Safecoin farming, SOLID integration and all of the client API’s and bindings.

There are 2 smaller ones that are implementing maid afaik (maidsafe mentioned it at the devcon) but as of now not using hitbtc and instead polo/Cryptopia/changelly/omni ledger are the only reasonable options